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Russia released over a dozen unjustly detained journalists, dissidents, and democracy activists in exchange for a coterie of Russian spies and criminals as part of what the Wall Street Journal called the “largest East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War’s Cold War .” This time, however, the cost to US honour and national security was openly acknowledged as the price of doing business in a fallen world..
A better policy would be an absolute insistence that Americans abroad have rights that must be respected.
Hostage-taking will desist only when the benefits are reduced to zero and the costs imposed are severe.
History tells us that the terrible dilemma of state-sponsored kidnapping will only be defeated by strong and principled leadership.
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